Category: Poetry

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Two Poems

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As Viscount St. Albans and Lord Keeper
Of the Great Seal Bacon judged England
Four years in the shade of prerogative.
He studied the bribe. It paid. He thought:

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Poetry: Savage Comments on Journalists

Richard Savage, whose birthday falls in January, was a close friend of Johnson who celebrated his unfortunate life and death in prison from liver failure.  This passage is from a longer satire “The Authors.”  Note how brutally relevant are down to the last detail, e.g., the stupid press’s attack on inoculation and their cruelty toward the unfortunate.